Pennsylvania Senate candidate John Fetterman to return to in-person campaigning after stroke in May

Pennsylvania Lt. Governor John Fetterman will return to in-person campaigning next week after recovering from a stroke in May. The Democratic Senate candidate will be holding a rally in Erie, Penn., next Friday.

The rally will mark his first appearance at a major public campaign event since his stroke, which occurred just before the state's primary. Since then, Fetterman has mostly been engaging with voters through social media and advertising while he recovers, apart from a series of in-person fundraisers he attended last month.

Erie County is an important bellwether for the Keystone State. President Donald Trump won it in 2016 by barely 1 point over Hillary Clinton. In 2020, then-candidate Joe Biden flipped it back to blue, also by just 1 point. In May, Fetterman won Erie County in the Democratic primary with 23,200 votes, nearly 80% of the primary vote. In the Republican primary, his opponent Dr. Mehmet Oz, who visited Erie on Wednesday, came in second in the county, receiving 7,500 votes.